The Germans are often portrayed as a warlike people, fond of uniforms, marching and militaria. The experience of two world wars (plus the attendant Allied propaganda campaigns) has fixed this image in the public mind.
But is the portrayal accurate? Did Germany (as the Versailles treaty claimed) start the First World War? Was it guilty of unprovoked aggression? The origins of the First World War are much more tangled and complex than simple myth suggests.
